I agree with you. Putin knows Obama is a coward, but a dangerous one.
I’m even wondering if this whole chemical weapons thing was concocted by us. Covertly the rebels release the weapons. It would make sense. Obama is given the perfect reason to go into Syria ie Assad gases innocent civilians.
Obama expects to get world support for going in, anI’m sure for a moment there Putin was wondering too what would happen if Syria were now against, the Brits, Germans, France, the US etc, but the Brits back off.
Putin starts to chuckle. He moves his ships in place, and probably tells Obama that he will support Syria, he must. Obama gets cold feet, and to Kerry’s surprise he wakes up the next morning and says he taking this to the Congress.
But they back off along with the American people. Putin now is even more emboldened, and clearly has the upper hand going into St Petersburg.
But Obama sill thinks he can pull something off that may turn the balance of power there. Take out Assad’s airstrips for example. That would be simple and easy to do, and have a large impact. “An unbelieveably small bombing.”
THen Kerry on the world stage blunders.
But Putin pulls a fast one and calls him out. “Hey we’ll take the weapons away from Assad and have them secured.”
This is getting funny as hell.